The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-04-29

fairs OF their clients, nei ghb1rs advsrtis-
ing the faults OF the next-door resideus,
pretending friends bssrayiny confiisnc,s.
One-hslf OF the trou5ls Of every COM
munity comes from the fact that so many
people have not capacity to keep their
mouths shut. When I hear something
disparsginy Of you my Frat duty il not to
tell you But if l tell you what somebody
has said against you. and then 60 out aud
toll eveFybo ly else what I told you, and
they 60 out and tell others what ] told
them that tod you, and we all so out,
some to hunt up the originator Of the
story and others to hunt It down, we shall
get the whole community talking about
what you did do and what you did not do,
and there will be as many scalps taken as
though band Of Nodocs had swept upon
q helpless village.
We have two ears but only one tongue,
physiological sug yestion that we ought
to hear great deal more than We tell.
Let Us Join a conspiracy that we " Ill tell
each other all the good and nothing of the
i'll, and then there will not bs such awful
need OF sermons on Solomon's words:
Discover not o secret to another.
Solomon had large domestic circle. In
his earlier days he had very confused no.
tions about monogAmy AMI polyxamy, AND
his multitudinous associates in thu m ssri-
monial state kept him too well inform ed
as to what was going on in Jerusalem
They gathered up all tho privacies of the
city and poured them into his ear, aud his
family became sorosIs, or female debat-
ing society of seven hund red, discussing
dayaft err day all the difficulties between
husbands and wives, between employers
IN NJ bsSYy h
iects. until solomon, in nv text, deplores
volubility about Affairs that do not belong
to US and extols the virtue of secretive-
ness.
By the power Of a secret divulged, fam
lilies, churches, neighborhoods. nations fly
apart. By the power of secret kept,
great charities, sociilties, reformatory
movements and Christian enterprises may
be advanced. Men are gregarious-cattie
in herds, fish In schools, birds in fiock,,
men in social circles. You may, by the
discharge OF a gun, scatter flock of
quails, or by the plunge Of the anchor
send apart the denizens OF thu sea, but
they will gather thems selves together
again. Ifyou, by some new power, could
break the associations in which men now
stand, they would again adhere. God
meant it so. He has gathered all the
flowers and shrubs into associations. You
may plant one for9et-me-not or hearts
ease alone, away oil upon the hillside, but
it will soon hunt up some other forget
me-not and heart's-case. Plants love
company. You will find them talking to
each other In the dew. A galaxy Of stars
is only mutual life insurance company.
You sometimes see man with 40 out
branchings Of sympathy. His nature is
cold and hard like ships mast ice
glazed, which the most agile sailor could
never climb. Others have thousand
roots and a thousand branches. Innum-
cradle tendrils climb their hearts. and
blossom all tho way up, and the fowls OF
Heaven sing in the branches. In conse-
Quence of this tendency, we find men
coming together in tribes, in commuui-
ties, in churches, in societies. Some
gather together to cultivate the arts,
some to plan for the welfare OF the State.
some to discuss religious themes, some to
ki1dle their mirth, some to advance their
crafts. So every active community is
divided into associations of artists, of
merchants, Of bookbinders, Of carpenters,
Of m asons, Of plasterers, Of shipwrigh.s,
of plumbers. Do you cry out against it!
Then you cry out against tendency
divinely implanted. Your TRADES would
accomplish no more than il you should
preach to a busy ant hill or bee-hive q
long sermon against secret societies.
Here we find the oft-discussed question
whether associations that do their work
with closed doors, and admit their MEM
bers by passwords, and greet each otner
with a secret grip, are right or wrong. l
answer that it depends entirely on the na-
sr, - b. n, rN- v,-Li ,tth ny- To
il 10 pass the hours in revelry, wassail.
0lasphemy and obscene talk, or to plot
trouble to the State, or to debauch the in
nocent, then l say. with An emphasis that
no man can mistake, no, Bu. IL the obi ,ct
the defense of the rights of any class
against oppression. the improvement of
the mind, the enlargement of the heart,
the advancement OF art, the defense OF the
Government, the extirpation Of crime, or
the klntling of a pure-helrted sociality,
then I say, with Just as much emphasis,
yes!
There is no need that we who plan TO-
tia conquest Of right over wrong should
publish to all the world our intentions.
The General OF an army never sends to
the opposing troops information OF
the coming ATTACK. Shall we who
have enlisted in the cause of God
and humanity expose our plans to tie
enemyi No! we viii in secret plot the
ruin of all the enterprises of Satan and his
cohorts. When they expect Us by day We
will fall upol them By night While th,y
are strengthening their left wing We will
double UP their right By plan Of battle
formed in secret ccnclaye we will come
suddenly upon them crying:
The sro-ti os the Lori and Gideon
Secrecy of plot aud execution are wrong
only when the object AMI ends are nefari-
Gus. Every family is 4 secret society,
every business drD and every banking
and insurance institution. Those men
who have no capacity to keep secret are
unfit for positions Of trus: anywhere.
There are thousands Of men whose vital
need is euituriug a capacity to keep a
secret Men talk too much, and women
too. There is time to keep silence as
well as time to speas.
Although not be onyin. TO any OF the
great secret societies about which there
has been SO much violent discussion,
have only words OF praise for those ssso-
Citations which have for their object the
OF right sgainst wrong. or
the reclamation Of iusbriates, or, like the
score Of mutual benefit societies called by
different names, that provide temporary
relief for widows and orphans and for
men incapscitated by sickness or accident !
from earning q livelihood Hal it not |
been for the large m5er Of secret labor |
in this country monopoly |
would long ago have, under its ponderous !
wheels. ground the laboring classes into |
IN intolersble servitude.
The men who want the whole earth to |
themselves would have got it before this |
1ad it not been for the banding together |
II great organizations. And, while We |
isp.ore many things that have been done |
~ than their exiatpnce Ia a nacasaifx